Tag: Housing market

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Housing supremos pledge support for first time buyers

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

16th February 2011, 16 years ago | 0

Housing Minister Grant Shapps wants key players in the housing sector to join together to help first time buyers find...

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Buy to let bargains for sale as sellers cut prices

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

16th February 2011, 16 years ago | 0

Investment opportunities for buy to let landlords look good as mortgage availability increases and asking prices for homes continue to...

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Mortgage availability is as good as it gets for a while say lenders

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

16th February 2011, 16 years ago | 0

Mortgage lending seems to have bottomed out in 2010 after plunging from £362 billion at the top of the market...

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Revealed – how property was crippled by the recession

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

11th February 2011, 16 years ago | 0

New figures from the government show how the banking crisis and recession crippled the housing market. In 2008/09 – the...

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Homes sales have slowed again, say estate agents

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

9th February 2011, 16 years ago | 0

Home sales slipped to the lowest level for 18 months as estate agents reported a poor month of trading. Fewer...

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Don’t make renting a home a life sentence, say under 30’s

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

2nd February 2011, 16 years ago | 0

The shameful state of Britain’s housing market is revealed in a new poll of attitudes to renting carried out by...

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House prices soar 91% in 10 years despite credit crisis

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

31st January 2011, 16 years ago | 0

Despite the credit crisis and recession, house prices have almost doubled in the past 10 years, according to mortgage lender...

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Bank mortgage lending plunges to 1999 levels

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

26th January 2011, 16 years ago | 0

Bank  mortgage lending slumped to the lowest for more than a decade  during December as the housing market stalled.

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Mortgage lending slumps to lowest level for a decade

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

21st January 2011, 16 years ago | 0

Mortgage lending has slumped to the lowest level for a decade as banks and building societies tighten their grip on...

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New lending rules may change housing market forever

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

20th January 2011, 16 years ago | 17

Poor mortgage market management by governments and greedy lenders is blamed for triggering the global financial crisis and hindering recovery ...

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House price figures deliver more nonsense values

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

18th January 2011, 16 years ago | 1

The monthly house price charade seems ridiculous when lenders and the government are still crunching the numbers for November when...

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House sales slump to an 8-year low

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

14th January 2011, 16 years ago | 3

The big freeze sent a chill through the housing market as sales slumped to an eight-year low in December. Estate...

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Property price tumbles cost homeowners £110 a week

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

10th January 2011, 16 years ago | 0

Property price rises and falls added up to the average home losing £110 in value every week last year, according...

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London leads charge in the £1 million home stakes

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

7th January 2011, 16 years ago | 3

Despite uncertain house prices, a staggering 35 new property millionaires woke up every day last year to find their homes...

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Will house prices fall if the next generation prefer to rent?

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

5th January 2011, 16 years ago | 5

I recently picked up on an interesting debate on this subject between two investors, to protect their identities I will...

Conflicting statements from Housing Minister! Stability or boom and bust?

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

5th January 2011, 16 years ago | 0

Grant Shapps recently revealed the government is looking at ways to take the heat out of the property market by...

My 2011 interest rate prediction

Author: Mark Alexander

3rd January 2011, 16 years ago | 4

From the heart, not a chart. I’m not really into fancy graphs, I don’t have a private school or university...

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Stubborn mortgage lenders hold property market hostage for profit

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

13th December 2010, 16 years ago | 6

Estate agents have slammed stubborn and self-serving mortgage lenders for holding homeowners and homebuyers hostage for the sake of their...

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Flood spending cuts leave homeowners high and dry

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

13th December 2010, 16 years ago | 0

Millions of homeowners and businesses may find buying buildings and contents insurance harder to obtain as a result of cuts...

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Rents set to keep on rising, say letting agents

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

3rd December 2010, 16 years ago | 0

Letting agents expect buy to let rents to keep edging higher as more tenants snap up the few available rental...

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Top 10 places where renting a home is cheaper than buying

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

26th November 2010, 16 years ago | 0

A new rent survey based on the average cost of renting compared to buying a similar home on an interest...